Combining Jenkins and Docker together can bring
improved speed and consistency to your automation tasks, which is why we’ve
collected some hopefully helpful resources on this page to get you started!

What’s Docker?

Docker is an
open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside
software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and
automation of operating-system-level virtualization on Linux.*

— Wikipedia

What this offers to Jenkins users is a means to isolate different jobs from one another, quickly clean a job’s workspace or even dynamically deploy or schedule jobs with Docker containers to increase resource utilization and efficiency.